Four-Dimensional Flow Echocardiography: Blood Speckle Tracking in Congenital Heart Disease: How to Apply, How to Interpret, What Is Feasible, and What Is …

M Cantinotti, P Marchese, E Franchi, G Santoro… - Healthcare, 2024 - mdpi.com
Blood speckle tracking echocardiography (BSTE) is a new, promising 4D flow ultrafast non-
focal plane imaging technique. The aim of the present investigation is to provide a review …

Intracardiac flow visualization using high‐frame rate blood speckle tracking echocardiography: illustrations from infants with congenital heart disease

M Cantinotti, P Marchese, M Koestenberger… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
We report applications of novel high‐frame rate blood speckle tracking (BST)
echocardiography in a series of infants with congenital heart disease (CHD). BST …

[HTML][HTML] Blood speckle-tracking based on high–frame rate ultrasound imaging in pediatric cardiology

SA Nyrnes, S Fadnes, MS Wigen, L Mertens… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Flow properties play an important role in cardiac function, remodeling, and
morphogenesis but cannot be displayed in detail with today's echocardiographic …

[HTML][HTML] Blood speckle imaging: A new echocardiographic approach to study fluid dynamics in congenital heart disease

N Borrelli, M Avesani, J Sabatino, A Ibrahim… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Introduction Blood speckle imaging (BSI) is a new speckle-tracking-based technique for
blood flow study. Flows assessment is particularly challenging in Congenital heart diseases …

Visualizable intracardiac flow pattern in fetuses with congenital heart defect: pilot study of blood speckle‐tracking echocardiography

R Xu, M Hou, D Zhou, Y Liu, L Xie… - Ultrasound in Obstetrics …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Blood‐flow pattern is an essential factor in cardiovascular development.
Recently, blood speckle‐tracking echocardiography (BST) based on high‐frame‐rate …

[HTML][HTML] Left ventricular vortex analysis by high-frame rate blood speckle tracking echocardiography in healthy children and in congenital heart disease

P Marchese, M Cantinotti, J Van den Eynde… - IJC Heart & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background High-frame rate blood speckle tracking (BST) echocardiography is a new
technique for the assessment of intracardiac flow. The purpose of this study was to evaluate …

Characterization of Aortic Flow Patterns by High‐Frame‐Rate Blood Speckle Tracking Echocardiography in Children

M Cantinotti, P Marchese, M Scalese… - Journal of the …, 2023 - Am Heart Assoc
Background Blood speckle tracking echocardiography allows for direct quantification of
interventricular and aortic flow profiles, principally in children. Here, we sought to …

[PDF][PDF] Three-Dimensional Speckle Tracking Echocardiography for the Assessment of Cardiac Function in Newborns with Extra-Cardiac Diseases

A Elmesiry, A EL-Mashad, M Awny… - Journal of Cardiology …, 2020 - researchgate.net
Neonatal heart could be affected by extracardiac diseases as neonatal sepsis, neonatal
pneumonia, hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy. Cardiac function in neonates can't be …

[HTML][HTML] Right ventricular flow dynamics in dilated right ventricles: energy loss estimation based on blood speckle tracking echocardiography—a pilot study in children

W Mawad, L Løvstakken, S Fadnes, T Grønli… - Ultrasound in Medicine …, 2021 - Elsevier
Using blood speckle tracking (BST) based on high-frame-rate echocardiography (HFRE), we
compared right ventricle (RV) flow dynamics in children with atrial septal defects (ASDs) and …

Author Spotlight: Advancing Neonatal Cardiac Diagnostics with Echocardiography-Derived Blood Speckle Imaging

E Crendal, K De Waal, D Vitiello - JoVE (Journal of Visualized …, 2023 - jove.com
The left ventricle (LV) has a unique pattern of hemodynamic filling. During diastole, a
rotational body or ring of fluid known as a vortex is formed due to the chiral geometry of the …